The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
Anthropic ·Proprietary ·Released May 2026·Tracked since 25 Jul 2026

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 — quality, speed & price analysis

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Quality
unranked
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Speed
#130 of 316
59.2
Output tokens per second
Price
#313 of 340
$10.00
Blended per 1M tokens
In $5.00 · Out $25.00
Cache hit price
#183 of 206
$0.50
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#82 of 345
1.00M
tokens (~1,500 pages)
Summary

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 does not yet carry a Known Good Index score — the index needs at least one science, one mathematics and one coding result. It accepts text, image, file input, outputs text, and supports a 1.00M-token context window.

Pricing is $5.00 per 1M input tokens (above the $2.18 average) and $25.00 per 1M output (above the $9.91 average). Cached input reads at $0.50 per 1M, a 90% discount on its input price. At 59 tokens per second it sits in the upper middle of the tracked range.

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Technical specifications
ReasoningYes
Input modalitytext, image, file
Output modalitytext
Context window1,000,000 tokens
Max output128,000 tokens
WeightsProprietary
Knowledge cutoffJanuary 2026
Tool callingYes
Providers4 hosts · compare →
Highlights — where Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 sits
Price

Blended USD per 1M tokens · Lower is better · Published pricing via OpenRouter

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Quality

How Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 compares against every tracked model

Known Good IndexCoding IndexCapability indicesBy open weights
Known Good Index

Composite of GPQA Diamond, MATH / AIME, SWE-bench Verified, LiveBench, Humanity's Last Exam and Terminal-Bench, normalised 0–100. Scores are ingested from Epoch AI; we do not run these evaluations.

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Quality Breakdown

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 on each evaluation feeding the index, against the tracked average

Evaluation scores

Bar = Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 · grey marker = average across tracked models · scores ingested from Epoch AI

GPQA Diamond91 / 63
MATH / AIME98 / 53
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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Text Arena

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena

1452
Elo · 95% CI ±5
#33
of 381 ranked models
32k
votes counted
1473
style-controlled (#22)

Ingested 25 Jul 2026.

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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

BlendedInput vs outputCache discountQuality per dollar
Blended Price

USD per 1M tokens at a 3:1 input:output blend. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input tokens accepted

Context windowMax output tokens
Context Window

Maximum input context from provider metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

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Speed

Median output throughput across hosting providers

Output speedBy provider
Output Speed

Median output tokens per second across all tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Higher is better.

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Latency

Time to first token, median across providers

Time to first tokenEnd-to-end response
Latency (TTFT)

Seconds to first streamed chunk, median across tracked providers. Derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry. Lower is better.

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Providers

Hosts serving Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8, with their own price and speed

4 providers
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ProviderInput $/MOutput $/M BlendedSpeedTTFTContext
Google · first party $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 70 1.4s 1.00M
Anthropic · first party $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 63 3.4s 1.00M
Amazon Bedrock · first party $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 61 2.8s 1.00M
Azure · first party $5.00 $25.00 $10.00 1.00M

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. Speed is output tokens per second; TTFT is time to first token.

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History

How price and quality have moved since we began tracking this model

Quality & price over time

Since 25 Jul 2026

Known Good Index
Blended price $10.00 per 1M · observed 25 Jul 2026
Output speed 59 tok/s · observed 25 Jul 2026
Time to first token 1.9s

No recorded changes for this model since tracking began.

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Comparisons

Head-to-head pages pairing Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 with other tracked models

Head-to-head pages are generated for the top 50 models by Known Good Index, which Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 is not currently in. Its nearest tracked models by index are below.

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